Free Chechnya Radio station

You can listen to Free Chechnya Radio station from 6 AM to 12 PM Moscow time on a frequency of 594 kHz on the medium wave band and on a frequency of 171 kHz on the long wave band. The programme is created with the involvement of the Ministry for culture and mass communication of the Russian Federation.
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International contacts

International Medical Corps Works in Chechnya

Various non-profit organizations from all over the world work in Chechnya, rendering the republic humanitarian aid. International Medical Corps is among them. Lately the format of their work has slightly changed. International Medical Corps (IMC) is a non-profit humanitarian relief organization providing medical training and emergency health care worldwide. Volunteer doctors and nurses established it in 1984. In 2000 International Medical Corps came to Ingushetia to work in camps for refugees. Mobile IMC teams rendered medical care and visited the most populated areas, where they always opened first-air posts. As time went by, mobile IMC teams began building there laundries, public eating houses and laid water and gas pipes. Bureau of the European Commission for Humanitarian Aid is the main financial donor of the International Medical Corps. At present, the majority of the former refuges have returned to Chechnya. So, it is only natural that International Medical Corps has moved to the republic too. Its main current task is to work out and implement 14 projects for the rural and industrial development of the 6 villages of the Achkhoi-Martan region. These projects envisage an opening of agricultural mini-firms as well as mini-plants producing brick and various building materials. To open them, a group of several local families gets money from International Medical Corps. The practice has proved to be a great success in other countries of the world; that is why International Medical Corps has brought it to Chechnya as well. Whats more, Bureau of the European Commission for Humanitarian Aid has already allocated money to implement the above-mentioned projects in the two other rural regions Groznensky in Chechnya and Khasaviyurtovsky in the neighboring republic of Dagestan. Then, International Medical Corps plan to come to the main mountain regions of Chechnya to implement the projects there as well.
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Chechen cuisine

Chechen cuisine

"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. And it was not until the late 19th century that many vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of their own. (more...)

Issue 445
03.04.07

Chechnya: news | arguments | facts

03 April 2007 Military antiterrorism exercises begin in southern Russia
Large-scale antiterrorism exercises have begun at ranges of the North Caucasus Military District. The districts press service said that the exercises involved aviation and air defense troops. The forces will practically drill tasks of suppressing air space violations and helping planes with hostages taken by terrorists, the press service said, Fighter aviation and air defense troops are to fulfil interception, forced landing or destruction of aircraft used for the preparation or perpetration of terrorist acts. The troops will practice live fire on low-lying planes making complex maneuvers. Fighter aviation will drop bombs on ground training targets simulating terrorist camps and bases. Units of an air assault regiment will land in a token area of a base of terrorists for a special operation to destroy them. The exercises, which will continue through April 14, engage about 8,000 servicemen. The commander of the North Caucasus Military District, General Alexander Baranov, supervises the exercises. Itar-Tass
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03 April 2007  Engineers defuse powerful bomb near Chechen village
Engineers detected and defused a powerful bomb near the Chechen village of Urdyukhoi, Shatoi district, a spokesman told Itar-Tass on Tuesday. The bomb was based on a 122-mm artillery shell containing six kilograms of TNT, a home-made detonator and a caseless transmitter, spokesman for the Chechen Interior Ministry's operations headquarter Dmitry Nikiforov said. Militants planted it on the side of a busy road leading to the village. "The engineers from a military commandant's office who arrived at the scene, blew it up. A search is underway fro the persons who planned the act of terror," Nikiforov said.
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02 April 2007  Two persons injured in roadside bomb explosion in North Caucasus
Two persons have been injured after a self-made roadside bomb went off in Ingushetia in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region, a source in the local law-enforcement bodies said Sunday. The explosion occurred in the evening of March 31 in the center of Nazran, the former capital of Ingushetia, the source said. A patrol police officer and an 11th form schoolboy were slightly injured in the explosion. Both of them were given medical aid, the source said. An investigation is under way and a criminal case into the incident has been launched, the source said. RIA Novosti
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Russia - Chechnya

Chechen history

Chechens (self-assumed name nokhchi ) are the world s most ancient people with unique anthropological type and culture. They are the largest ethnic group in the North Caucasus (more than 1 million people). The neighbouring Ingush people are very similar in genotype, culture and religion. Together they form the Vainakh people related by blood, common history, territorial, economic and cultural links and language. Vainakhs (Chechens, Ingushes) are aborigines of the Caucasus and speak Nakh, a language that belongs to the Iberian-Caucasian language family. The Vainakh (Chechen) ethnic and cultural complex was formed on the basis of various aboriginal people. Historically the Chechen community was formed as multi-ethnic and it kept absorbing ethnic elements of nomadic people and neighbouring high-landers, the evidence of which being the non-Vainakh origin of many Chechen clans. The history of Chechnya can be described as a continuing struggle for freedom and independence against outside enemies, in which periods of prosperity alternated with defeats and new attempts to revive the statehood. In the early Middle Ages (4th-12th centuries) Chechens had to take up arms to defend themselves against invaders from Rome, Sasanid Iran, Arab Caliphate and Khazar Kaganate. The centuries-long struggle forged a military union of highlanders and laid the foundation for their statehood.
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